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“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?”

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Book:Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...”

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Book:Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

“That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...”

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Book:Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

Source: Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

“Caesar is a different category of man altogether. Pompey merely wants to rule the world. Caesar longs to smash it to pieces and remake it in his own image.”

Book:Conspirata

Source: Conspirata

“It was then that he gained the nickname adulescentulus carnifex: 'kid butcher' rather than enfant terrible.”

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Book:SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Source: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“The Warden of Land and Sea", murmured Cicero, "I suppose we should be grateful he's left us the air”

Author:Robert Harris

“After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. "Your advice," said Cicero, "were good if we were to fight jackdaws.”

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Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'”

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Author:Plutarch

“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”

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Book:The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

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Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!”

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Author:Joseph Addison

“Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.”

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Author:Julius Caesar

“When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero